Improved tool for clinching horseshoe-nails



J. E. DRAPER. DEVICE FOR ULINOHING HORSBSHOE NAILS.

No. 32,989. PatentedAug. 6, 1861.

M am/[W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. E. DRAPER, or NORTHVILLE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED TOOL FOR CLINCHING HORSESHOE-NAILS.

v Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 82,989, dated August 6,1861.

5 Figure 1 is a side view of my invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged perspective view of the .-'same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

To-enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my inventiori, I will proceed to describe it. 4 A B represent two'handles, which are connected by a fulcrum pinor joint, 0, the handles being provided, respectivcly,with jaws D E, which cross each other at the joint or pin ,0, so that the jaws may be made to approach and recede from each other by. operating the handles A B in a'corresponding manner-that is to say, the jaws being distended by distending or shoving apart the handles, and vice versa. The jaws D E are quite dissimilar, the jaw. D of handle A being of segment form, and corrugated, as shownwclearly in. Fig. 2, while the jaw E ofhandle B is of hook or curve form approaching or approximating to a semicircle, as shown in both figures.-

The implement of course is constructed of metal, and the jaws-should be of steel, the corrugated jaw D being hardened, and also jaw -E, if desired. a The implement is used as follows: The aw E is placed against the bottom of the shoe and the handles A B distended so that the corru-" gated segment-jaw D will extend upward on the hoof sufficiently far to reach the point of the nail, and the handles A B being then compressed, the jaw D will catch the-point of the nail and clinch it while being forced down, the

jaw E bearing against the head of the nail,,aud

thereby preventing the nail being started or forced back as it is clinched.- The device, it will be seen, is extremely simple and efficient, and may be manipulated with facility, and the work of clinching very expeditiously performed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent as an improved article of manufaeturw- A .liorseshoe-nail-clinching tool composed of a serrated segment-shaped jaw, D, and 'a hook-shaped jaw, E, attached, respectively, to

pivoted jaws A B, and otherwise made as herein shown and described.

J. E. DRAPER.

Witnesses:

LAWRENCE NOBLE, Jenn Evnnrr'r. 

